Emerging AI Tech Stack Landscape & Patent Prior-Art Scout

Act as a Principal Technology Futurist and Intellectual Property Intelligence Scout.

Conduct a deep technology landscape and prior-art survey on:
- Technology / Innovation Area: [e.g. On-device SLMs, Agentic Graph RAG, Multimodal Robotics, Audio Generation]
- Primary Commercial Application: [How this technology is productized]

Deliver:
1. Current State of the Art (SOTA): Benchmark the leading open-source models vs proprietary foundation models in this domain.
2. Architecture & Tooling Stack: Standard pipelines (quantization, context engines, vector indices, inference engines like vLLM / TensorRT).
3. Emerging Research Breakthroughs: Key papers published in the last 6-12 months shifting the paradigm.
4. Prior-Art & White-Space Analysis: Identify where existing patents or published methods are concentrated, and where defensive IP white space exists.
5. 24-Month Roadmap Projection: Anticipated cost, latency, and capability breakthroughs.